Dennis Lee Reynolds was 24 when he vanished from Litchfield, Illinois, in early February 1978 during a catastrophic blizzard. Wind gusts reached 100 miles per hour and wind chill was reported at sixty degrees below zero; snow began in the early afternoon and temperatures fell below zero by evening. Dennis had been at a bar with his best friend, drove the friend home, and said he planned to visit his girlfriend. He never returned.

Family and friends found his car abandoned in a snow-filled ditch near the girlfriend’s mobile home; the doors were locked, the windows broken, and his winter jacket remained inside. About six months earlier Dennis had been beaten with a baseball bat in an altercation with the girlfriend’s two brothers, who allegedly threatened to kill him if he returned. Police questioned the girlfriend and her brothers; one brother reportedly passed a polygraph, the other brother and the girlfriend refused. No arrests were made and the official police file was later lost. His family, especially his sisters, continue seeking answers.

If anyone has information about Dennis’s last known movements or the people he was with that night, please share what is known.